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(Horn Diplomat News Desk) The Chairman of the Somaliland opposition party, UCID, Faisal Ali Warabe, called for the government and businesses in Somaliland to embrace a culture of competition. "Our constitution stipulates free trade. We must bring to an end monopolies in Somaliland" Faisal...

By: MoDuale Ethiopia's state minister of foreign affairs Redwan Hussein has arrived in Hargeisa for an official working visit. Upon arrival at the Hargeisa Egal International Airport, he was received by Somaliland Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Liban Yousuf Osman https://twitter.com/RedwanHussien/status/1433397398919864321?s=19 During his visit, The...

By:Ashley Hamer Berbera, Somaliland - Up to one million sheep and goats crowd vast, smelly pens across three quarantine stations in the searing heat and desert wind outside Somaliland's ancient Red Sea port town of Berbera. During the weeks of the peak season, a steady stream of...

By Bashir Goth Africa’s First Democrats: Somalia’s Aden A. Osman and Abdirazak H. Hussen by Abdi Ismail Samatar, 308 PP. Indiana University Press, 2016 “To hold a pen is to be at war.” --- Voltaire   Why I review this book As a firm believer in democratic principles and an...

Horndiplomat-The President of Somaliland Musa Bihi abdi  and his delegation jetted into Abudhabi shortly after they left the country yesterday afternoon for the Gulf Country of the UAE on an official trip following on invitation by the Emirates monarchy. On arrival he was highly received...

By Garikai Chengu Global Research Today marks the anniversary of the end of nearly 700 years of African Muslim rule over Spain, Portugal and Southern France. Four hundred and eight years ago today King Phillip III of Spain signed an order, which was one of the earliest...

The Human Rights Center unequivocally calls for the release of the journalists, opposition leaders, and members currently detained in Mandheera following the protests on June 9th, 2022. En masse, journalists and opposition members were brought to court and remanded for further days in jail. The...

The region needs more ports, and there’s a race to build and control them. This February, the small African nation of Djibouti took control of the Red Sea container port of Doraleh from DP World, completing what it considers the final act in a lengthy...

  Nine months into a state-of-emergency imposed to quell popular unrest, Ethiopia’s ruling party, the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), has unveiled its first significant political concession. But the furor surrounding the draft bill presented to parliament last week reveals just how deep tensions...

By:Joshua Gross Horndiplomat-Following the Executive Order restricting travel to the United States issued by the White House on January 27, Somaliland’s Foreign Minister Dr. Saad Ali Shire wrote to the U.S. Departments of State and Homeland Security to seek an exemption for Somaliland from the...